What’s the Deal? This is the sound of the Pogues madly slurping mothers’ milk and brothers’ blood at Gettysburg — banjo and fiddle ballads turned berserker by Greg Jamie’s bullfrog bleat. But don’t mistake O’Death for preservationists. The high-lonesomes of Bill Monroe and Bonnie Billy may be unmistakable in their arsenal, but these bushy-faced boys are a reincarnated cavalry charge, and they’ll be damned if they take the hill the same way twice.

Fun Fact: O’Death take their name from an old spiritual, re-popularized by Ralph Stanley on the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack. DANIEL ARNOLD